Hoopes v. Garver
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Error to the Common Pleas of Chester county. This was an action of trespass qu. cl. fregit, brought by Samuel Garver, administrator of the estate of Samuel Lefevre, deceased, against Abraham Hoopes, William H. Johnston, and John Shellinger, to try the title to a narrow strip of land claimed by both Hoopes and Lefevre, who were the adjacent owners on each side of it.
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Error to the Common Pleas of Chester county. This was an action of trespass qu. cl. fregit, brought by Samuel Garver, administrator of the estate of Samuel Lefevre, deceased, against Abraham Hoopes, William H. Johnston, and John Shellinger, to try the title to a narrow strip of land claimed by both Hoopes and Lefevre, who were the adjacent owners on each side of it. Samuel Lefevre, the plaintiff below, declared “ that the defendants on the 4th day of July, one thousand eight hundred and forty-two, and on divers other days and times between that day and the commencement of this suit, with…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Chambers, J.
This case presents a controversy between the owners of two adjoining farms, about the location of their boundary fence, involving the question of title to about one-eighth of an acre of land, of little value. It, however, involves in its decision principles of moment to many of the owners of land in this commonwealth, in relation to their boundary fences and the occupancy of them, that demand a more full report of the ease and the law appertaining, than if it related exclusively to the small piece of land now in controversy. There is no…
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